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10 Truly awesome treehouse designs

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When the new word for revolution is ‘green’, then why not completely move out and take to the trees. These truly awesome treehouse designs might actually make you reconsider your earthly abode.

1. Wooden tree house
This exquisite design from Baumraum wedged between an alder and oak tree really puts the arboreal space into serious contention. Not only is the tree house stunningly built, it has also kept posterity in mind by adding an element of steel to it. Unlike other tree houses this one doesn’t cramp one up and offers plenty of space to laze around. While most of its structure is wood, the glass walls open up for a view from all corners. This house is well worth completely moving into instead of just spending an odd night or two.

2. Sphere tree house
In Vancouver, Canada, tucked high up in the canopy of the rain forest, sit Eve and Eryn, two Free Spirit Sphere tree houses. Each sphere hangs only for a few days, and are, as their creators describe, ‘suspended like pendants from a web of rope.’ The spheres remove all access to it, the suspension ladders, everything, once the stay is over. These orbs among the trees are sold and made from either wood or fiber glass.

3. Four Treehouse by Lukasz Kos
Designer Lukasz Kos uses four trees to set up a tree house surrounded by Lake Muskoka in Ontario, Canada. Interestingly, the house allows for a play of light wherein, depending upon whether one places lights from above or below the house, the structure keeps changing its appearance.

4. Under heaven tree house
Perched above the Stedelijik Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, this tree house built by Installation artist Leonard Van Munster, was made up of old fruits and vegetable crates. Although this structure was a temporary one, and constructed way back in 2004, it really does deserve some more rotten tomatoes.

5. Yellow treehouse restaurant
In Auckland, New Zealand, you could get drunk in the bar on top of a tree at the Yellow Tree house restaurant. This uber-modern wooden, ribcage like structure looks like a piece of art when all lighted up through its slats at night and it can hold up at least 18 sober people. Too bad they’ve stopped taking reservations and have now handed over the reins to Redwoods Forest, who intend to rent it out for events.

6. O2 tree house
If you think within all this cool tree house building, everyone seems to have forgotten about the poor old tree, don’t sweat; 23 year old Dustin Feider has covered all of us. He spent sleepless nights trying to figure out a way to make an ecologically safe tree house, and the result is the O2 tree house; a more stable structure than the ‘traditional’ tree house and all that without harming the tree. The dome shaped house lights up through its translucent 1/16th inch triangulated polypropylene panels, which also open up to keep the air flowing. And the whole house is made from recycled material.

7. Living in a palm tree
German designers Baumraum have again come up with a truly swanky concept swinging above the ground. Although still a concept, this luxurious tree house can be set up a few metres from the sea and climbed with a ladder. The palm tree house also packs in a terrace for sunbathing.

8. Sybarite tree house
This concept comes from Sybarite in the UK and is planned as an airborne rural housing project. Along with regional planning authorities and property developers, Sybarite intends to, as the designers say, “with a flexible planning arrangement, encourage a more organic approach to country living.”

9. Mirror cube tree house
The Mirror Cube Tree house in Sweden is a surreal fantasy in the woods. Made out of aluminum, this hotel’s exterior cover reflects its surroundings, which blends the structure with the forest. Inside, it’s all plywood and replete with 360 degree view windows. Now, all that camouflaging might fool the birds into crashing straight into the cube, right? No. The geeky bird-lovers have laminated the panes of the cube with an infrared film, invisible to the human eye and visible only to birds.

10. Tree hotel
A massive Gajumaru tree cradles the Naha Harbor Diner in Okinawa, Japan.The twenty foot high restaurant, however, has a little unnaturalness to it. The tree is not real and has an elevator inside its trunk.

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